Waiting for Godot
WAITING for GODOT ‘Waiting for Godot’ is a play by Samuel Beckett, who composed the original in French, between 1948 and 1949. The premiere was in 1953 in Paris. The English language version was premiered in London in 1955. In this play, two characters are waiting on a country road by a tree, for a third, namely Godot, to arrive. Very little happens, and during their long wait the men talk about their lives. Godot never arrives, and while waiting they engage in a variety of discussions. The play suggests that life has no meaning and is full of suffering. “Waiting for Godot” as a phrase has carved a place in the English language. It has come to denote in our language usage as waiting for someone who has given a time of his arrival but does not come; or something to happen but it never takes place. We keep waiting, hoping that he/she shall come, or the expected thing shall happen, but does not. Usually all of us have faced a situation where you wait for something t